2015 February Update

The selection lists were generated before the February 25 market opening. Price histories, adjusted for splits and dividends, were downloaded from Yahoo.

The purchase amount for call options has been doubled. The amount is now twice the number of contracts (shares divided by 100) indicated in the table on the buy page. The amount for put options already was twice the number of contracts.

The S&P 500 Index has been freshly analyzed. As a result there are minor changes in the January Barometer defensive period and in optimum timing for selling and buying.

Portfolio

I chose RAI for the purchase. MCD, CCI, and LB were disqualified because I already own them. FDO was disqualified because it is being acquired. NRF was disqualified because it is in the Real Estate group: